gibberish

UK /ˈd͡ʒɪ.bə.ɹɪʃ/ US /ˈd͡ʒɪ.bə.ɹɪʃ/

noun 3adj 1

Definitions

noun

Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.

Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with.

Could it be, after all, that the whole story was true, and the writing on the sherd was not a forgery, or the invention of some crack-brained, long-forgotten individual? And if so, could it be that Leo was the man that She was waiting for - the dead man who was to be born again! Impossible! The whole thing was gibberish! Who ever heard of a man being born again?

Needlessly obscure or overly technical language.

A language game, comparable to pig Latin, in which one inserts a nonsense syllable before the first vowel in each syllable of a word.

adj

unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless

Collocations

ADJ.

all, best, intentional, other, technical

VERB + GIBBERISH

bit, deep-throated, get, like, produce, sorts, speak, speaking

GIBBERISH + NOUN

children, filenames, han, yanni

PREP.

in, on, with

ADV.

again, easily, ever, mostly, only, promptly, such

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — unintelligible talking

gibber

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with.

Wiktionary

The Game of Thrones novels were best sellers without fleshed-out Dothraki; the languages in Star Wars, one of the most successful franchises ever, are mostly gibberish, even if Han Solo claims to unde

Wiktionary

On some OS's you get gibberish for filenames with full-width characters so when downloading please change to a suitable filename.

Tatoeba · #328909

After receiving a hefty blow to the head, the man spoke only gibberish.

Tatoeba · #1415708

The man ran into the room wearing a boot on his head, shouted a bunch of gibberish, and promptly exited.

Tatoeba · #1415709

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